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    182 TUITION OR TRADE ?

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    work to perform , there to remain , and , If leisure permits , and they have the capabilityto cultivate their mental faculties to the

    utterperfect most . education Our author , are , grants not , cap that able women of imp as ar they ting much are , "with instruction their im to

    their children . We shall , therefore , leave that part of the subject , and onladdthat there is so much dawdling over what some women

    call duties y , that , the sooner idleness is expelled from domestic life , the sooner women will attain a more rational idea of what duties are .

    A hardier system of upbringing , with training for some definite work , would eventually render women more capable of managing a

    household , governing servants , and educating infants , than they " arenow "with an education which neither compels them to think , to follow

    methods , to observe laws , or , to come lower , an education which fits them neither for active wives nor working mothers .

    "We now come to what is termed " a feminine delusion , " namely , _" labor viewed as a privilege , and as a good in itself , exclusion author asks

    from which is to be regretted for its own sake . " The " how women have contrived to take so cheerful a view of the penalty

    imposed on man when he fell from his state of innocence ? " The all-wise Law-giver knew best what was for the good of his fallen

    creatures , and saw that , although man in a state of innocence might with impunity repose at ease in the Garden of Eden , out of that

    paradise idleness would be an evil and a snare ; therefore , in mercy , God gave man work ; and what is beneficial to the one human being

    is likewise a blessing to the other . In return , the author might be asked why he recommends for women even more arduous work

    ( that of the brain ) than is sought for them by the advocates of their employment , if he considers work a penalty , and not a good in

    itself ? It is on the broad basis of the principle that work is a good , that

    it or is as soug a mere ht for expedient women as of w the ell as hour for for men necessity , not from has dire no necessity law , and ,

    women , driven by gaunt want , must , work or starve , therefore of these it is needless to speak .

    It could not have passed into a proverb , that " Idleness is the parent of mischief , " unless it had been proved to be so ; and although ,

    taking a superficial view of the subject , idle women may not appear so dangerous to the common-wealth as idle men , yet did our space

    permit , perhaps it could be shown that indolent or idle women are fireside equall This y detrimental advocate occupation of to earnestl woman the sp confining iritual repudiates and herself mental the idea entirel elevation of y idleness to of indoor the race and "but .

    y ; limiting the sex as he does to mental cultivation , " for the one purpose able thus of teaching to emp , loy and their as it leisure seems to , idleness us that onl mmt y the be few the will inevitable , or and are

    the result , unless of other the channels are healthil opened flow up into . To which eak the of competition activity 1 energy many may y sp

    stage or rivalry , is wrong with men * . As in " well business speak at this of a earl few y stage raw , recruits or indeed rivallin at any g

    182 Tuition Or Trade ?

    182 TUITION OR TRADE ?

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/38/